Asymmetries in vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in chronic stroke survivors with spastic hypertonia: Evidence for a vestibulospinal role

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2070-2078

  Miller, Derek M ^a,b   Klein, Cliff S ^b   Suresh, Nina L ^b   Rymer, William Z ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stroke subjects; Hemispheric stroke; Human; Motoneuron; Post stroke spasticity; Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials; Vestibulospinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CELL ACTIVATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC HYPERTONIA; SPASTICITY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURVIVOR; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; COMPLICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; SURVIVORS; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 84927174462     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.01.035     Document Type: Article

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